One Kind Word. Says it all at the moment doesn’t it? I don’t know about you but I’m getting rather cheesed off, angry (at who I don’t know) and feeling quite isolated now. I’ve worked right through the last 2 lockdowns but this time I’ve been off work with a dodgy knee and it’s been hard so I really feel for those of you that are doing this on your own or with very little support. Even the weather has been appalling. Thank fully I have my art to turn to and wow what a saviour it has been. Taking it all out on page, even if it looks rubbish, it doesn’t matter.
Seemed appropriate for my Visible Image DT turn to make something a little more light hearted than maybe I’ve been feeling and I have to admit I love the One Kind Word set. You can sneak quite a lot on that little piece of paper trapped in the typewriter, although this time I’ve gone for just one of the sentiments in the set.
I’ve gone with a pink theme for this make although I was originally toying with the idea of a blue/turquoise mix but I had this old gelli plate background in my drawer (that I’ve been saving for ages and didn’t want to use) and picked the pink to go with it. The print is a mop up print (a print you do to ‘clean’ your plate of paint/ink) and I love the mop-ups usually more than the prints themselves. You get these crusty bits of old paint picked up and I just adore the texture it creates. Perfect!
First thing I did was to create the heart. This is just a generic die-cut heart, approx 10cm across that I inked using Spun Sugar and Worn Lipstick. Having then attached the Strobes stencil over the top, I added Picked Raspberry oxide ink. However… it all then went a bit wrong. I was adding some beautiful Tattered Angels Glimmer Spray (Lovely Lilac) for a bit of shimmer and the bottle fell over and went everywhere.. Uh-oh!
So rather than start again, I went with it as actually it looked lovely and heat dried it. The spray gave a really subtle lilac colour and where it had run, the mottled effect was quite pleasing (although I wouldn’t recommend tipping your inks everywhere).
Once dried, I secured the Strobes stencil in place (again) and added the Picked Raspberry. To add to the overall love and kindness theme, I used Words of Support stencil and just masked off the word ‘love’, adding it using Candied Apple oxide ink pad.
The typewriter was really easy to do. Simply stamp in black and then heat emboss using clear powder. I also heat embossed the sentiment using a grey ink instead (VersaFine Claire Morning Mist).
Once trimmed , I coloured the ‘paper’ in the typewriter using Old Paper and Tea Dye Distress Ink pads (not oxides).
With the type writer added to the heart using foam tape, I used the small hearts in the One Kind Words stamp set to float around the type writer and to add to the general theme. These were just heat embossed onto gold card and attached using teeny tiny foam squares.
I then decided that ‘something’ was needed behind the heart to and so settled on my old favourite stencil, Strobes. Rather than just use modelling paste, I used Izink Ice as it’s translucent and is just fabulous! I applied a thin-ish layer of Freesia using a palette knife and then allowed to air dry.
Once the Ice dry, I added foam tape to the rear of the heart and to add extra texture (because that’s what I do) I then twisted some black cotton onto the tape to break up the background.
The sentiment was heat embossed using gold powder onto a similar coloured scrap card I had and then matted onto gold card.
With the card complete, I matte it onto the same gold card as the sentiment and then onto black card to make those colours ‘pop’!
Here are the Visible Image products I used for this make…
From left to right… Strobes, Words of Support and One Kind Word stamp set.
If you pop over to the Visual Image Facebook Group page at the moment, you’ll see there is a ‘Hope and Colour’ challenge running. Just upload a card, tag, journal page, anything using Visible Image stamps that is colourful and has a hopeful or kind sentiment to be in the draw to win one of three vouchers. There are some fabulous entries already and it doesn’t close until 31st January so still plenty of time to get involved. You can also post any make onto Instagram too as long as you remember to tag Visible Image in (@visibleimagestamps). So do get involved. Helen and Mark have been super generous this year already and I know this will continue as they are awesome people!!
Catch you all again soon. Stay safe, do what we have too and don’t put loads of pressure on yourself. H xx
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